Steve Jobs, 1996:
Steve Jobs, 2010:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
I love your products, Apple, but it’s hard to continue promoting [...]
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I’m still getting used to my Mac, and one of the things I ran into recently drove me nuts. For a company that prides itself on the user experience, Apple sure does drop the ball in odd ways.
My annoyance was window sizing when switching from docked to not-docked on my MacBook. When docked, I’m running [...]
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Inspired by a completely idiotic bit of fear mongering on the local “news” tonight.
Still not scared? Alrighty then.
Thanks reddit.
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“Joy comes from using your potential.” – Will Schultz
I’m part of the generation that grew up both in awe of and, more and more, subservient to computers. Thirty-somethings have never known a world without computers, although not all of us had them in the home until our teens. But they’ve always been an impact on [...]
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After beating my head against a wall for the better part of an hour (I’m on vacation, I had the time to kill), I was completely unable to get iChat to connect to GTalk via the Jabber configuration that used to work prior to my Snow Leoapard install.
After searching around (on Google’s site), I resorted [...]
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After a couple of weeks with a new Dell Studio XPS 13, it was obvious that it was not the laptop for me. Don’t get me wrong, it was a fine machine, but with Vista 64-bit and my complete inability to succesfully “upgrade” it to Vista Ultimate 32-bit (yes, I tried to wipe and re-install).
So, [...]
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Inspired by a conversation at work today about free (as in beer) software, here’s a quick list of some of my favorite apps. I use Windows, so many of these will be Windows-only.
FileZilla; open-source, easy to use, FTP client; even runs off a USB drive
Twhirl – Adobe AIR-based Twitter client. Supports multiple accounts, skins, multiple [...]
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